Leo
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Leo [1]
The name of six emperors of the East, of which the chief was Leo III., surnamed the Isaurian, born in Isauria; raised to the imperial throne by the army, defeated by sea and land the Saracens who threatened Constantinople; ruled peacefully for nine years, when he headed the Iconoclast Movement (
hich provoked hostility and led to the revolt of Italy from the Greek empire; d . 741.